69.16 Pamporovo, Bulgaria. Reach Studense and up Ski (slope 2) to Snezhana, across to Malina, down slopes (5a, 4 and 4a and across 6)...and home.

This trail is for the birds. We struggled up the steep, wet and soft underfoot while completely mesmerized for 3 hours in a wonderful environment. We might have mentioned that sentiment/feeling before. Well, we have a new system in which our frequently mentioned feelings/observations of wonder are initialized regularly. In this way, we avoid repetition; therefore, making it slightly more difficult to classify as boring.
Reminds us of a golf fairway. At least when you slice your drive, there is some reward in searching for the ball.
We avoid Snezhanka Tower after midnight, it seems too haunting.
Sounds feeble but the camera cannot capture the acuteness of the slopes (This is 5a, black diamond). Okay, I feel better now.

The extremely steep but short addendum to 4a, number 4. We classify this as 'rough diamond'. Love the visible tree trunks.
Snezhanka Tower helps the less competent with their ('his') bearings.
A few days before we hiked up the slope. This time we came down a slope parallel to this one. The turnoff (4a) is just to the right at the equipment.
In a few places we enter the serene forests.
Provides perspective of the terrain.
Black diamond (2) to/from Studenets.
Rich and overflowing with pride.
Sometimes one feels 'Big Brother' is lurking...um...history might just affirm this.
Some like a view of drops of sea water, others, grains of beach sand while many talk to the trees.
Almost a patterned-mix.
Walking down into a wall of trees.
So much more to see but it's enough, says Jen.
Cheers, 

Jenni and Jeffrey